R.L. Watts is Canada's leading expert on comparative federalism. His "New Federations: Experiments in the Commonwealth" is a classic in the field. It has been followed by distinguished monographs, articles and chapters in collections on federalism in diverse settings. He is regularly invited to lecture, be a resident scholar, present papers and design colloquia in numerous countries on five continents. He is the Past President of the International Association of Centres for the Study of Federalism. Watts has also published significant work on post secondary education.

Jill R. Webster, professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto and a corresponding member of the Societat Històrico-Arqueològica of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, has published extensively on Francesc Eiximenis, the Franciscans and the Carmelites in the realms of Aragon and on related topics. Her most recent publications are: "Els menorets - The Franciscans in the Realms of Aragon from St. Francis to the Black Death" (1348), Toronto, 1993; "Per Déu o per diners - els mendicants i el dergat ol País Valencià", Valencia, 1998; "Carmel in Medieval Catalonia", Leider, 1999. She is considered the foremost authority on the Franciscans and Carmelites in the medieval Crown of Aragon, and continues to work in this area.

Ernest Weinrib, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has made a significant contribution to jurisprudence and theory of tort law. His work explores the connection between moral theory and the foundations of private law. He has developed a coherent theory of rationality of private law, drawing in particular upon the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Kant. His work challenges other contemporary theories which dispute law's internal integrity and he is widely regarded as one of the leading scholars in the common law world of the theory of tort law. Professor Weinrib has also made significant contributions to literature on various aspects of tort law doctrine, the law of fiduciary duties, and to classical studies.

John Whalley of the University of Western Ontario has a worldwide reputation as a leading exponent of quantitative general equilibrium theory, a body of analysis which is currently revolutionizing economists' approaches to problems of tax, trade, and development policy. Whalley has been at the forefront both in creating this body of techniques and in applying them to the policy problems of advanced countries such as Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and to those of less developed countries too. His work is as notable for its sensitiviey to political and institutional realities as it is for its exceptional technical quality. He has thus made fundamental contributions to one of the most important bodies of applied economic analysis to appear since World War II.

Sharon A. Williams, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, has contributed in a most significant way to the legal understanding and development of important areas of international law. Her seminal work on the international and national protection of movable cultural property has won her universal recognition and acclaim. Dr. Williams' other major studies devoted principally to international criminal law and human rights with special attention to terrorism, extradition and the establishment of an international Criminal Court to prosecute war criminals and criminals against humanity, as well as, on a different plane, the combatting of international environmental pollution are widely recognized as substantial and thoughtful. As an outstanding scholar she has carried forward the frontiers of knowledge in these specialized areas of international law.

Shortly after receiving his doctoral degree at Columbia, Milton Wilson's dissertation appeared as a book, "Shelley's Later Poetry", (1959) and was received as a major scholarly contribution to the study of Shelley and the theory of romanticism. Since then, most of his publications have been in the field of Canadian Literature. He is certainly one of the best critics of Canadian Literature, sensitive and learned in analysis, urbane in style.

David Monk Winch, graduate of the University of London and of Cambridge University, and for the past decade professor of Economics at McMaster University, is currently completing a second term as chairman of that Department. His earlier academic posts have included appointments at the Universities of Toronto, Saskatchewan, Alberta and most recently at St. John's College, Cambridge, as a Commonwealth Fellow. Academic awards from such distinguished institutions as the London School of Economics, Yale University and by the Killam Foundation reflect the excellence of his scholarship. Beyond his teaching and research, his ongoing academic services include his scholarship and fellowship adjudications on behalf of the Canada Council and of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Committee; and the reviewing of manuscripts for learned journals. He currently further serves the public interest as a continuing member of the Ontario Economic Council. An outstandingly able micro-economic theorist, Professor Winch has published extensively and internationally in numerous learned journals and his major books include "The Economics of Highway Planning" and "Analytical Welfare Economics". His published work has provided valuable insights into the problems of promoting human welfare through the optimal allocation of scarce resources.

A leading Canadian historian, Wise is an authority on the conservative tradition in Canada, particularly in nineteenth-century Ontario, and on military history, from the American Revolution to Canadian air participation in the two World Wars. He has also written with distinction on Canadian social and regional history, native Indian history and in the now socio-cultural field of Canadian sports history. He has been President of the Canadian Historical Association, of the Social Science Research Council, Director of History at National Defence H.Q., Chairman of the Ontario Heritage Foundation - and much more.

H.C. Wolfart, University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human language. His writings draw on the classical languages (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic) and modern European evidence as well as the Algonquian languages of North America; they cover a wide range of linguistic, philological, bibliographic, historical, and literary topics. He has studied the maintenance of language boundaries among nomadic and sedentary populations, and his investigations of spoken languages are complemented by studies of early records and the analytical principles embodied in them. His most significant contribution has been in the field of linguistic analysis, especially in the grammatical and semantic analysis of spoken texts. He is best known for his grammar of the Cree language (1973) and for text editions, published in the Cree original accompanied by a translation, which present and document one of the major indigenous literatures of Canada.

Ronald Johnston Wonnacott, a product of London, Ontario, and now a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, is one of Canada's most renowned academic economists. His several books in the fields of trade policy and econometrics have set standards of clarity and insight seldom matched, but frequently cited as the definitive works on the subjects, and have earned him a distinguished world-wide reputation.

John Woods has written extensively in logical theory, and has applied his insights to difficult and important problems in philosophical logic, literary theory and social ethics. He has written fourteen books and monographs, edited thirty-six more, and published many essays. All show clarity, elegance, and rigour.